Combined pencil-holder and clip



(No Model.)

I W. E. QUINN.

COMBINED PENCIL HOLDER AND CLIP.

Patented Mar. 10, 1896.

INVENTOI? ATTORNEYS;

I edge view of the holder,

. is'a front elevation of the holder,

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

\VTLLIA M E.

QUINN, OF ANNISTON, ALABAMA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 556,209, dated March 10, 1896.

Application filed November 2s, 195. Serial No. 569,909. (No model.)

To (6 whom it may concern:

Be it known that vI, WILLIAM EUGENE QUINN, of Anniston, in the county of Calhoun and State of Alabama, have invented a new and Improved Combined Pencil-Holder and.

(lip, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a combined pencil-holder and clip especially adapted for use byconduetors, engineers, and lelegrapli-operators, thearticle being so constructed as to receive and hold a pencil, pen, or like article, and also to receive and hold memo'rainla, train orders, telegrams, waybills, and other written or printed sheets, thereby providing'a means ofconstantly keeping a memorandum, an order, or a bill before the wearer of the device until the memorandum shall, have been complied witln'or the order obeyed, or the way-bill disposed of.

A further object of construct the holder that it may be attached to any portion of the wearing-apparel and the body-of the holder assume a vertical position. 4

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination. of the several. parts, as willbe hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification ,f

in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved holder, illustrating a memorandum and a pencil as held thereby. Fig. 2 is an memorandum, and pencil. -Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the holder and memorandum, the pencil being omitted and the'said section being taken substantially on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

the pencil and Fig. 5 of the said and memorandum being omitted; is an edge view of a modified form holder.

In carrying out the invention the holder comprises ajba-ck may be of any desired shape, but is preferably fiat and provided at the top with an extension u, whi to at each side of the said plate an car: is formed, being projected forward] y, and the said ears are at a right an gle the body of plate A, which plate 0, which is preferably the invention is to so Fig. i

to the body of the plate, or practically so. The formation of the body of the holder is completed by the addition of the clampingprovided with ears 1?, coinciding with the ears 10 of the back plate, and the clamping-plate is connected to the back plate by passing a pivotpin 13 through the ears of both of these parts.

The lower end of the clamping-plate is curved downward to meet the lower edge oi the back plate and is provided with scrrations 11 or the equivalents thereof at its lower end, and the SGlTtlJBd lower portion of the clamping-plate is adapted to clamp and hold material, such asa sheet of paper D, introduced between the back and clamping'plates, by means of a spring 13, which in the preferred form of the device is coiled around the pivot-pin 13 and has bearing at one end and against the front face of the back plate and at the other end against the inner face of the clamping-plate.

The elamping-plate is provided with fingers 14 and 15 produced longitudinallythereon, one at each side of the center, and these lingers are preferably struckeup from the material from which the clamping-plate is constructed, the said material being of. a spring character as, for example, sheet iron or brass, preferably the latter. v

The two fingers 14 and 15 are parallel and form a socket into which the pencil 16 may be introduced, the fingers clamping the pencil to such an ext-ent as to hold it in engagement with the aforesaid clamping-plate.

The back plate A is provided with a clasp 13, which may be of any approved construction, the said clasp in the drawings bein shown as constructed with two pivotally-conneeted jaws l7 and 18, the said jaws being held together at their upperor biting ends by a spring 19 introduced between them, and one of the jaws is pivotally connected to the extension a of the back plate, preferably through the medium of an eyelet 20 or its equivalent.

In Fig. 5 the back plate and clamping-plate are not provided with the ears shown in the other figures; but the two plates are connected and are held in engagement at their lower ends by means of a spring 21, secured at its ends to the said plates, and when the clamping-plate is to be opened up from the back plate this may be accomplished by simply pressing dmvnward upon the upper end of the clamping-plate, the same action being required to separate the two plates under the construction shown in the other views; By pivoting the clasp to the back plate of the device the device will hang perpendicularly, no matter to what portion of a garment the elasp may be attached.

llaving thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters latent-- 1.. A combined pencil-holder and clip, comprising a back plate, a elampingrplate pivotally mounted on the back plate, and a spring connected to the clam pin g-plate and arranged to hold the same with its end normally in engageinent with the back plate, said clampingplate having tral portion, said li lingers struck up from its cenugersextendingoutwardly I back plate, and a [from the clamping-plate opposite each other and being adapted to receive and clamp a pencil or the like, substantially as set forth.

2. A combined pencil-holder and clip, comprising a back plate aspring-clasp pivotally connected with the upper end thereof on the rear face of the back plate, a clamping-plate pivotally mounted on the front face of'the spring connected to the clamping-plate and arranged to hold the same with one end normally engaging'the back plate, said clamping plate having fingers struck up from it, said lingers projecting from the front face of the clamping-plate op posite each otherand being, adapted to receive and clamp a pencil or the like, substantially as set forth. \YlLlQL-U EL QUINX.

Witnesses;

GEORGE A. ()llHlS'llAN, \VM. R. llowooN. 

